Challenge yourself for Charity at Paras’ 10 

 

Be a Sponsor or a Competitor – or both!

 The Paras 10 is the ultimate challenge. 2012′s race, the 5th since the revival of this event in 2008, has a variety of affordable sponsorship opportunities available, from Title Sponsorship to Gold and Silver Tier packages, and even the Mile markers during the race. For more information email paras10@paracharity.org

 

 Paras’10 Sunday 9th September 2012

Enter at www.paras10.com

There are two options: run it in trainers and vest, or go for the full Boots and Bergen challenge with 35lbs on your back. Target time is 1 hour 50 minutes, as it is in P Company selection.

The race this year benefits The Parachute Regiment Charity. We encourage runners to raise sponsorship funds for the Charity too. If every runner raised just £100, then that’s £400,000 to support the Charity and its work.

This year Matt Baker, presenter of BBC’s The One Show and Countryfile, kindly agreed to start the firing gun. Matt did P Company with Blue Peter in 2004. Thanks, Matt.

This is OUR event. If there’s only one challenge you set yourself this year, make it this one.

Full details at www.paras10.com where you can enter online. You can also click through from the homepage to get 20% discount off UK Gear shoes, designed in partnership with the British Army.

Photos from 2011 event (and previous years) now available from Event Photos, who donate 10% of sales to the Charity

If you want to read more about the full ‘P Company’, or Pre-Parachute Selection, to give  its official name, then read this blog by 2/Lt Sam Westlake, who went through the experience.

Pegasus Company (P Coy) run Pre-Parachute Selection (PPS) courses for both Regular and TA personnel, testing both All Arms and Parachute Regiment Officers and Soldiers for suitability to serve with Airborne Forces and the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG).  The Company also run The Paras’ 10 event.

“The P Company mission is to test the physical fitness, determination and mental robustness, under conditions of stress, to determine whether an individual has the self discipline and motivation required for service with the Airborne Forces.

Second Lieutenant Sam Westlake, a recent graduate from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst who commissioned into The Parachute Regiment, is currently at Catterick Garrison undertaking this course. He’ll be blogging each day with details of his experiences and performance… “